Re: [GBlist] House sizes

[Susannah <susannah@cyber-dyne.com>]

Since the subject has come up, does anyone know where I could find out, or 
find information to calculate, average house size for a family 
worldwide?  I'd love to include as much as possible, to be as accurate as 
possible -- including shanty towns and people living in cardboard boxes on 
city streets.  I'd also like to know about average energy usage worldwide, 
and for various climate zones..  I'm thinking about writing an article 
describing what is the current average lifestyle, and suggesting that maybe 
we (humanity) need to develop some sort of consensus on what we would 
*like* the average lifestyle to be, how much is too much and how much is 
too little -- as well as how many people the world can sustainably hold at 
that level, and how much of the world's resources would be left for 
non-human life... you know, the big picture!  Perhaps this has already been 
done, and someone can suggest where to find it?
Thanks very much,
-- Susannah


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